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by sillysaurusx 1244 days ago
Oof. I agree with you that that’s an especially frustrating experience. For what it’s worth, the website is a weird alternate not-TikTok universe in that sense. The app wouldn’t do that to you.

It certainly has flaws. I’m just uncomfortable with the notion that it’s entirely worthless and that a nationwide ban is fine. It seems mistaken, and it could be a costly mistake.
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weard_beard 1244 days ago
The US government isn’t banning it because it is worthless. This isn’t about the content in any way. It is about the collection of data by a major foreign power and the use of that data to feed specific propaganda to US government personnel.

My take on it is unless the US government is willing to formally show proof it is direct foreign propaganda they should not be allowed to ban it and the bar for that proof should be HIGH.

Slippery slopes and all..

What keeps the next president from declaring CNN or Fox News or Google or the AP “propaganda” and pretty soon government devices will be a stupid shitty battleground for cheap political points and not safe work devices.

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weq 1243 days ago
1) The CCP 2) They are, but they wont be, because they helped him win.

Its an uncomfortable thought but the media and kings have always had parasitic relationships.

We dont need to get into the forced organ harvesting stuff too do we? You know, THE THING that happens when you say "no" to one too many times to the CCP or become more famous then whinne the poo?

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tomjen3 1243 days ago
They could just ban the collection of private data, but that would hurt Facebook and Instagram.
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